The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-06
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Gases of Curious Interest Before the
Squires Yesterday.

Cases OF Curious Interest Before the
Squires Yesterday.
There was curious case befora SQUIRE
Elliott yesterday. Titus Mckay is pretty
well to do negro farmer near Nesbitt Sta
ton, Miss, and must be little moro than
an average husband, rs he brings his wife
along with him to help him spend the
proceeds OF his toll. Yesterday he came
to this city to sell several bales of cotton.
His wife came along also, and as he had
paid all his yearly accounts, he gave the
"old woman" about S65 and told her TO
buy for herself and children whatever she
wanted. They unfortunately steered
themselves into the store Of /. Cohen, ON
Beale street. The wife did the purchasing.
as she had the purse; in it was $50 bill,
$40 and S. bill. The polite clerk who
waited on her was Miss Rachel Mincer
rather progressing in appearance, and
doubtless equally 80 as saleslady
Mrs. Mckay thought she had all she
wanted when she had reached the
amount OF - 80, and rendered $40, from
which the proper change was returned
Before she got out she saw, or thought she
saw, another article she wanted, and be-
fore she knew whether she did or not the
ever ready clerk convinced her she really
must have 1t, and she took it. The price
was 81. She reached her hand in the
purse, and pulled ont her money. She
Is not very quick at figures, besides the
light was bad, and while intending 10
hand the clerk the $ bill, she made the
mistake, rs she claims, and handed her the
800 bill, and Miss Mencer gave her only
- in change. She did not notice her mis-
take at the time, but rs she got 10 the
door she prudently looked Mt her money,
and found that the 50 bill was in the purse
and the $50 one gone. She at once went
back and called the clerks attention to the
mistake, but instead of rectifying Il she in
dignantly maintained that she had only re-
ceived :, and had given the correct
changc., There was good deal
OF talk between the parties, but
It did The poor negro no good. She then
went before the squire and swore out a
warrant against tho clerk for wrongfuly
withholding from her the money. Miss
Mincer was at once arrested, and Cohen
went on her bond in the sum OF $500 until
December 10, to which date the case was
continued.
The Scott-Ilead case came 10 head be-
lore Squirc liughey yesterday afternoon.
after having consumed all the forenoon in
The hearing Of evidence The facts rs de-
velopcd were substantially those given
In T1fE APPEAL in its ISSUES Of Saturday
and Sunday mornings The girl. acting
under the advice Of counsel, refused 10 say
anything further than 20 denyanyc criminal
intimacy with Scott. The facts, aside
from the girls uncnncealed devotion for
Scott, showed that she, ignorant and CON
tiding. had become the victim of a lustfnl
wretch, and her plcadings for mercy out
balanced the courts usual sternness, and
he only fined her s. and costs, she proms-
ing To leave the city. AS TO Scott, he had
sobcrcd and shaved up, and looked far
more decent than when arrested lie
claimed 10 he in very bad health, and
wouk go at once 10 Hot Springs
for the rheumatism. from which nc WAS
suffering. acutcly, II permitted. In
view OF these facts the court fined him
SIS and costs. Hc paid his own and the
girls bill, which amounted 10 S2S, thanked
the court for its exceeding kindness, and
went ON his way rejoicing In the mean
his wife not two years ago, and the limo
cent girl baby from tho union, must live
rs best they can by the proceeds Of the
hcart-broken mothers drudgery.
Squire Fleming will take pleasure in
into the merits OF the charge
made by Lizzie Watson against her
Armistead Watson, for beating
her over the head with stick yesterday,
II their home on the Horn Lake road,
ibout seven miles from che city. %